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...refusal to offer course credit for field work discourages student initiative, stifles imagination and blatantly manifests Harvard's intellectual elitism. Perhaps the Administration's policies are justified IF we do, in fact, have the greatest collection of scholars the world has ever known and IF they can and do transmit their knowledge on to us. But some of us will not accept this notion of the University that it is better to read our professors' works on poverty in America or pressure polities while sitting in the stacks of Widener, than to live for a summer in Columbia Point Housing...
...have ever had." Thus the companies are turning out ever more exotic defensive gadgets. For example, to cut alarms without the breaks being noticed, crafty cracksmen now tie in simulators that duplicate the all-safe signal. In a counterattack, both Diebold and Mosler have developed alarm attachments that transmit random signals similar to computer code, which no simulator has yet been able to imitate. Cost...
Syntax of Fantasy. What connects Klee's inner vision to present experience is not his power to transmit "reality" but the enchanting spectacle of his language. His inventiveness was phenomenal and contained surprising propositions for, and anticipations of the future. Flower Myth, 1918-with its squiggled symbols for plants and trees and chirpy bird flying across the red landscape of an equivocal torso that might be Mother Earth-is the ancestor of the flattened, wrinkled landscape-nudes, scrawled with graffiti, that Jean Dubuffet was to paint thirty years later. It is a syntax of fantasy, the color swelling...
...There is no one whom I have ever been able to discover within A.T. & T.," continued Johnson, "who has a sense of the social-political-economic role of the telephone in a modern industrial society. They can design, promote, distribute and install a Princess telephone that will transmit the human voice. But they are seemingly incapable of thinking about the ways in which people might use that instrument in their lives. What would be the social impact of universal availability of a low-price long-distance service without a per-call charge? They don't know...
...older people whose deafness is caused by progressive nerve damage, which can often be corrected by artificial hearing aids. But a significant number are younger people whose impairment is triggered by disease or injury to the tympanum and ossicles (see diagram), the eardrum and tiny vibrating bones that transmit sound waves to the inner...